4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Emmanuel Grumbach emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com
commit ec484d03ef0df8d34086b95710e355a259cbe1f2 upstream.
The oldest firmware supported by iwlmvm do support getting the average beacon RSSI. Enable the sta_statistics() call from mac80211 even on older firmware versions.
Fixes: 33cef9256342 ("iwlwifi: mvm: support beacon statistics for BSS client") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+ Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho luciano.coelho@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c @@ -3976,10 +3976,6 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_sta_statistics(s sinfo->filled |= BIT(NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG); }
- if (!fw_has_capa(&mvm->fw->ucode_capa, - IWL_UCODE_TLV_CAPA_RADIO_BEACON_STATS)) - return; - /* if beacon filtering isn't on mac80211 does it anyway */ if (!(vif->driver_flags & IEEE80211_VIF_BEACON_FILTER)) return;